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Knots with infinitely many non-characterizing slopes

Geometric Topology 2021-03-09 v2

Abstract

Using the techniques on annulus twists, we observe that 636_3 has infinitely many non-characterizing slopes, which affirmatively answers a question by Baker and Motegi. Furthermore, we prove that the knots 626_2, 636_3, 767_6, 777_7, 818_1, 838_3, 848_4, 868_6, 878_7, 898_9, 8108_{10}, 8118_{11}, 8128_{12}, 8138_{13}, 8148_{14}, 8178_{17},8208_{20} and 8218_{21} have infinitely many non-characterizing slopes. We also introduce the notion of trivial annulus twists and give some possible applications. Finally, we completely determine which knots have special annulus presentations up to 8-crossings.

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@article{arxiv.2003.07163,
  title  = {Knots with infinitely many non-characterizing slopes},
  author = {Tetsuya Abe and Keiji Tagami},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.07163},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

v2: Added Appendix with a complete proof of Theorem 3.1. This paper has been accepted by Kodai Mathematical Journal

R2 v1 2026-06-23T14:16:03.838Z